Variety Review Breathing in Mud
A husband long thought dead returns to his remarried wife in “Breathing in Mud,” a well-scripted urban meller by busy Malaysian helmer...
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Apr 5, 20081 min read
SIFF'08: Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers, Breathing in Mud
Here's a typical James Lee romantic drama, with the usual dryly intertwining, secretly crossed-up relationships of his Love...
Dec 7, 20071 min read
She's Not There
The title of this film from Malaysian filmmaker James Lee could easily serve as that of a grand romantic epic, or perhaps one of the...
Aug 12, 20071 min read
Identity and Cinema: James Lee and the New Voice of Malaysian Cinema
Lee's film was in competition for the FIPRESCI prize and although it did not receive the award, it definitely deserves closer...
Jul 29, 20071 min read
BEFORE WE FALL IN LOVE AGAIN won the Best Asean Feature
Malaysian director James Lee's digital movie BEFORE WE FALL IN LOVE AGAIN just won the Best Asean Feature award at the Bangkok...
Jul 7, 20072 min read
Sancho Does Asia | Ah Beng Returns
While an absence - that of a certain Ah Beng - hovers over the set of human configurations of a small Chinese gang - this one declines...
Apr 25, 20073 min read
James Lee's Aesthetics
Malaysian director James Lee is a sublime chronicler of despair. He discovers something hypnotically fascinating in an emotion that most...
Apr 13, 20075 min read
Stéphane Mas: Adultery through vacuum cleaning
How to show a disappearance without seeing the one on process in the heart of a couple ? Here, the disappearance of a woman leaving her...
Apr 9, 20071 min read
Indie film-maker James Lee gets Special Focus at Film Festival
Local independent film-maker James Lee, 33, has become the first Malaysian to receive a Special Focus at the 9th Deauville Asian Film...
Apr 5, 20072 min read
Around the Beautiful Washing Machine
Sancho: Why did you choose this object, the washing machine, for this film? James Lee: I wrote this movie some time ago. At the time, I...
Apr 4, 20073 min read
Sancho Does Asia review
Difficult to imagine a title of film at once as little poetic and really intriguing. And yet, it is true that it is pretty, this apple...
Mar 27, 20071 min read
Special Focus on James Lee 9th Deauville Asian Film Festival 2007
The 9th edition of the Deauville Asian Film Festival 2007, France had a special focus on the movies of Malaysian director James Lee, as a...
Oct 18, 20063 min read
Screen International Daily: Before We Fall In Love Again
Husbands and their wives' lovers have never hit it off as well as they do in Before We Fall In Love Again, a strange and tightly...
Feb 5, 20051 min read
Destructive Alienations
A developed film language, a sophisticated film expression and a stylistically established approach to the film material - is something...
Jul 6, 20041 min read
Better Luck Today: Asian Fest Imagines There's No Countries
How much Asian cinema can one city take in a single summer? Last month's New York Asian Film Festival placed some of the continent's...
Jul 28, 20031 min read
Variety Review: ‘Room To Let’
A boarding house in Kuala Lumpur offers a temporary nesting place for an out-of-work reflexologist in Malaysian DV maestro James Lee’s...
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